No one remembers the name of the one who came to the finish line second. In modern realities, increasing the competitiveness of products and improving their quality are synonymous, and the search for ways to achieve these goals has become key. This article discusses the concepts of competition and presents one of the effective ways to achieve competitive products in the engineering industry - the qualimetric method of expert assessments. This method is effective, universal and convenient for solving various problems. The application of the method of expert assessments allows the company to constantly improve the shape of its products, determine the necessary quality indicators, increase the material interest of workers, improve working conditions in the workplace and much more. Thus, the method becomes an effective "tool" that allows to maintain a stable position of the enterprise on the market and provide one of the key principles of QMS, TQM - customer orientation, which includes identifying possible causes of product defects and conducting market research to determine customer needs.

Modern technologies are the most important component for any state. Today, advanced technologies allow to create any mechanisms at the level of atoms and molecules. For the production of machines, aggregates and their individual components, new nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are used, which reduce friction repeatedly and with high efficiency, protect parts from damage, save energy and increase the reliability of machine parts as a whole. Virtually in any mechanism, some parts focus on the main load. In this study, such a detail is the steel clamping collet 65G. A method of plasma siliconizing is proposed for hardening its inner surface. The raise of this characteristics will allow to increase its service life, and therefore will ensure more reliable operation of both a separate mechanism and production as a whole. This allows the enterprise to become cost-effective and competitive. In this paper, the magnitude of the effect of the silicon atoms introduction into the surface layer of a part on wear resistance and durability is investigated. Research and subsequent processing of the results using Statistica software for statistical analysis shows an increase in the strength characteristics by 2.6 times.